Someone selling my domain??

[StoneRoses]

Hi,need some advice please.

I bought a domain that was available and i have now completed the registration and it is mine,however i have just seen the same domain advertised on Sedo but not by me,how can this be?.

I have checked the whois and it is showing up as my details,i thought sedo had to confirm the whois before posting domains for sale.

Anyone know why this is? or even had this happen to them?

the domain is tracker.in

Thanks

 

[xabela]

Hi,

Maby your domain name was registered before for that person, he/she let it dropped and then you registered it

check it www.archive.org

 

[Earthian]

in your post , you first say "advertised on ebay" (it is always spelled eBay by the way) and then you say "sedo had to confirm" ...


since it is not on eBay while it is on SEDO ... if you use the archive.org link that xabela posted , you can see that someone owned the domain before you ... he/she probably posted it on SEDO and forgot to cancel it after he/she dropped it ...


just contact SEDO and explain ...

 

[t10host]

Interesting.
It means that your domain is valuable

 

[StoneRoses]

I mistakenly put eBay instead of SEDO.

Sorry for the confusion,also many thanks for the English Lit lesson, i will be sure not do it again.

 

[SJM211]

Interesting.
It means that your domain is valuable

Not necessarily anyone can list a bad domain on Sedo, plus they let it drop which unless they really screwed up means that they didn't think it was worth renewing..

 

[RobinB123]

Yeah same happened to me, I regged a domain a few days ago and noticed it was also on a sedo page with an asking price of $7500 ... obviously didn't get sold lol

Robin

 

[Flaresolutions]

in your post , you first say "advertised on ebay" (it is always spelled eBay by the way) and then you say "sedo had to confirm" ...

Ok bud, but I think you get the message accross when you spell "ebay" in any form.. quite hilarious how they are trying to regulate their company name through the net.. I never liked ebay much anyway.

 

[B33R]

I've bought plenty of names that were still listed on Sedo (and Afternic).

You just email Sedo, they confirm that you are the owner and that the person who listed it isn't, then they remove the listing and email you back.

Usually takes a day or two.

 

[Earthian]

snudlepuss - glad to be of help







Flaresolutions - I agree that the message does go through ... I also I agree that people can spell a name whichever THEY think is appropriate or better (in an "informal" post at least) ... but I also think that a company's specific demand for the way their name is spelled should be respected ... also it shows that someone is a knowledgeable eBayer (and surfer) and that he has shifted through the eBay site a bit ...

eg. if you stated on your site that your name is always spelled FlareSolutions , wouldn't it be a little annoying if everybody called you flaresolutions all the time ?







SEDO is actually spelled "Sedo" (while their logo is "sedo" , eBay's logo is "ebaY") ... but I kind of prefer SEDO since it is more common and there is no knowledgeable-surfer-element in that one (and no specific demand for it on their site either , in contradiction with eBay) ...







regarding eBay in general ...I think it is a great marketplace ... a little tough on domains (right now) and maybe a little in a slow period in general (compared to last year for example) ... but it is certainly one of the classics ...

 

[StoneRoses]

snudlepuss - glad to be of help








eg. if you stated on your site that your name is always spelled FlareSolutions , wouldn't it be a little annoying if everybody called you flaresolutions all the time ?




Quite franky NO!,i couldnt care less if people called my business MrWongsMagicHat,as long as they kept buying from me who really cares,i've got more things to worry about than someone mispelling or mispronouncing My business name,life is far to short.

 

[Earthian]

snudlepuss - I think you misunderstood something that I said to Flaresolutions ... when I put "Flaresolutions - I agree that ..." I meant that it was as a reply to Flaresolutions ... not towards your reply for misspelling the name ... (if you just replied in general disregard this)





regarding my statement about respecting a demand on a site ... I said it IS usual that people use terms that are more convinient for them (especially informally) ... on the other hand , after you establish a huge commercial presense , it is usually logical that you expect that your name is spelled the way you want it (especially if it is stated so specifically on the site) ... besides people who misspell well-known names usually look a little like n00bs while not causing the company any harm anyways ... but again it goes down to how a person prefers to spell a name ...






irrelevent with all of the above ... if a person posts something about a "problem" in one of your posts , it is usually polite not to edit out the (usually unintentional) mistake after someone posted about it , because it might make the friendly poster look incoherent (of course knowledgeable users usually see the "Last edited by..." and figure it out) ... I am not trying to sound unfriendly or something , I just think it is one of the useful and polite "rules" for posting ... you can easily just amend a mistake by re-posting about it (if there is already a post regarding something) , like you did in your second post ... of course there are exceptions to this (eg. risk for a big confusion of other members) and of course it's up to the poster's judgement ...

 

[StoneRoses]

Ok,fine,like i said i don't care, it really isn't as important to me as it appears to be for you.

If i have broken some rule regarding editing i apologise.

Infact no i don't apologise and frankly i don't care either, because in the great scheme of things what does it matter?.

I have a life and don't judge others by the way they spell company names.
I asked for advice on my domain name.
I can't recall asking for your views regarding spelling or ettiquete so keep them to yourself and stop being so prentencious.

 

[Rob]

I didnt even read the posts where they got totally off topic.

Regarding the domain being for sale by somebody else, this isnt rare. Normally somebody will advertise, get no response and let the domain drop, for you to pick up. Alternatively you might purchase the name off the seller and they dont bother to cancel their 'for sale' advert / listing.

I wouldnt worry about it at all, unless your domain was newly registered and had never been registered before. But even then, although curious, as long as you have your whois info correct the domain is yours, even it somebody pretends otherwise.

 

[Archangel]

Ok,fine,like i said i don't care, it really isn't as important to me as it appears to be for you.

If i have broken some rule regarding editing i apologise.

Infact no i don't apologise and frankly i don't care either, because in the great scheme of things what does it matter?.

I have a life and don't judge others by the way they spell company names.
I asked for advice on my domain name.
I can't recall asking for your views regarding spelling or ettiquete so keep them to yourself and stop being so prentencious.

Calm down, man. You'll give yourself a heart attack. He was just givung his 2 cents. Personally, I don't care how it's--the company's name--typed so long as it's spelled properly. But I still type out eBay, not ebay. Anyway, he wasn't criticizing you. He was just making a point. No harm comes from making a point unless another entity takes offense to it.

 

[Earthian]

snudlepuss - I did not ask you to apologize and there was no need also since it was not a rule but a "rule" and a very flexible one also ...





I think that you judge people and form opinions about them (even without knowing it) from every little piece of information you receive from them ...

In case you were mistakenly offended by the word n00b ... I did NOT call you a n00b ... I said that people who misspell well-known names will possibly look a little like n00bs ... I was not referring to you , I was speaking in general ...





I think that your initial request was addressed rather sufficiently by me and other people in this thread and I did not try to steal your thread , I just posted something that I thought would be useful (spelling of eBay and then editing) ... maybe I should have PMed regarding the editing thing instead ...





If you post in a public forum , many people might post things that you don't agree with but you can't exactly demand that they keep them to themselves ... I was not pretentious I was just precise ... I am sure that people that did not know about the eBay thing found that link rather interesting ...





your tone changed a lot from the initial thank you to your last post while what you seem to have missed is that all my posts in this thread were well-meant and I did not post them to offend ...

 

[Archangel]

This thread is starting to get a bit hot.... I think the mods should close it up, seeing that the OP already has his question answered.